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- | Holy Toledo, so glad I clieckd | + | ==== Coming to Our Senses ==== |
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+ | Healing Ourselves and the World through Mindfulness | ||
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+ | * by Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
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+ | "In a nutshell: The cultivation of mindfulness is not only an invaluable means of appreciating the present moment and healing the body; it is a discipline that opens our senses and gives us a way to cope with the distress and dissatisfaction of our lives and move toward the creation of a better world." | ||
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+ | * relationality | ||
+ | * orthogonal institutions | ||
+ | * thinking turns situations into problems -> situations require a response - require an analysis and observation | ||
+ | * you make / u have - thinking is a fabrication - a screen between us and direct experience | ||
+ | * clear thinking is powerful, but often it isn't clear | ||
+ | * untrained mind-fabricating, | ||
+ | * seeing it with equanimity | ||
+ | * less clinging and grasping | ||
+ | * detecting fabrication | ||
+ | * like writing | ||
+ | * intention not to make anything | ||
+ | * do we really know what is happening in an event? (news?) | ||
+ | * removed from our direct experience until they (events) become our direct experience - can we be orthogonal, inclusive, compassionate, | ||
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+ | Shouldn' | ||
+ | * being aware of what we know and not know... | ||
+ | * not to get caught up and blinded by our blind emotions | ||
+ | * take practical steps to nurture new possibilities | ||
+ | * what are we doing with our creative energies to heal the body politic | ||
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+ | Suspension of distraction | ||
+ | * communing, making eye contact, less absorbed with daily preoccupations | ||
+ | * wordless presence | ||
+ | * recognition of dis-ease (9/11) | ||
+ | * everything is impermanent - institutions can't stop it | ||
+ | * things are fundamentally uncertain - terrifying people | ||
+ | * the mind forgets rapidly | ||
+ | * embodiment of our deepest principles: linger collectively in suspension of distraction | ||
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+ | Capabilities | ||
+ | * capturing the full spectrum of our capabilities, | ||
+ | * massive interior ignoring of who we are and where we live | ||
+ | * own to our own sentience, come to our senses | ||
+ | * start paying attention & wake up to things as they are. all else will follow. | ||
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+ | (...) | ||
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+ | Notes taken while listening to the audiobook: | ||
+ | == Kabat-Zinn, J. (2005). Coming to Our Senses. Hyperion Audiobooks. == | ||
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+ | [[reading notes]] |